A split-second sound delay on Gigabyte X570

Hi everyone,

Today I’ve assembled my new rig and installed Manjaro (KDE) for the first time. I am very impressed with KDE and Pacman :+1:
However, there’s this annoying split-second delay in the line out.

[vasily@vasily-home ~]$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:    Kernel: 5.9.11-3-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 
           wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X570 AORUS ELITE v: -CF serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: X570 AORUS ELITE v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F31l date: 11/25/2020 
CPU:       Info: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 177337 
           Speed: 3592 MHz min/max: 2200/3700 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3592 2: 2053 3: 3998 4: 2053 5: 3591 
           6: 2052 7: 2049 8: 2052 9: 2050 10: 2047 11: 2240 12: 2580 13: 2052 14: 2094 15: 2051 16: 4546 17: 2050 18: 2053 
           19: 2047 20: 2051 21: 2696 22: 2441 23: 2149 24: 2066 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01 bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 10de:2206 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: nvidia resolution: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 108 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 455.45.01 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.1 chip ID: 10de:1aef 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 0a:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.11-3-MANJARO 
Network:   Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: igb v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 04:00.0 
           chip ID: 8086:1539 
           IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 19.24 GiB (2.1%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 
           serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXE7 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 915.60 GiB used: 19.24 GiB (2.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 16.8 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 41 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0% 
Info:      Processes: 447 Uptime: 26m Memory: 31.37 GiB used: 4.58 GiB (14.6%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 
           Packages: pacman: 1234 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: yakuake inxi: 3.1.08

UPDATE: Firefox doesn’t have this issue. Chrome and Steam do.